A Small and Colorful Manhattan Apartment

This Manhattan apartment is small in size, but big in color.

Designer Miles Redd proves that the key to a small space is bringing together the right colors in a big way.

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Living Room

Living Room

In a Manhattan apartment designed for a couple in the fashion world, Miles Redd lacquered walls in Farrow & Ball's Hague Blue, "a great way to do a moody color because of the way it reflects light. It doesn't look dark so much as rich." The confident mix of chairs includes graceful Maison Jansen slipper chairs from John Norwood Antiques, upholstered in Velours de Soie Uni in Bleu de France from Prelle. "It's a divine fabric, with an inky, lustrous quality."

Thomas Loof

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Tablescape

Tablescape

Striped faux-marble specimen lamps from John Rosselli and a 19th-century Italian wooden saddle form add height to a tablescape.

Living Room

In a Manhattan apartment designed for a couple in the fashion world, Miles Redd lacquered walls in Farrow & Ball's Hague Blue, "a great way to do a moody color because of the way it reflects light. It doesn't look dark so much as rich." The confident mix of chairs includes graceful Maison Jansen slipper chairs from John Norwood Antiques, upholstered in Velours de Soie Uni in Bleu de France from Prelle. "It's a divine fabric, with an inky, lustrous quality."

Thomas Loof

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Tablescape

Striped faux-marble specimen lamps from John Rosselli and a 19th-century Italian wooden saddle form add height to a tablescape.

Thomas Loof

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Colorful Chair

An ikat from Tulu Textiles on a Louis XV–style slipper chair has "every color in the apartment in it."

Thomas Loof

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Hallway

Redd revved up hallway walls with vivid olive India tea paper from de Gournay and doors with Edelman leather in garden green and nailhead trim. "If they get beat up, they'll only look better," he says.

Thomas Loof

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Foyer

An exuberant variation on a classic de Gournay wall­paper was made for the foyer: presto, a glorious garden of flowers and birds! The neoclassical console and faux-malachite column lamps are from John Rosselli. Redd stained the floor's chevron pattern in contrasting tones to play up its geometry.

Thomas Loof

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Foyer Detail

A hand-painted bird takes off from an amber glass doorknob in the foyer.

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Home Bar

A 19th-century English sideboard serves as a bar.

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Study

A collection of photos and drawings fills a study wall, clad in Japanese cork wallpaper from Philip Jeffries. Orange phone from oldphoneworks.com.

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Study Seating

One of the owners' vizslas naps on the study's Climate sectional by Dune, covered in Sensuede, a stain-resistant faux suede. "You can spill red wine on it," says designer Miles Redd.

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Kitchen

The kitchen is small, but Tom Mendenhall has no trouble making braised short ribs for eight in it. Cabinets are lacquered in Bamboo Leaf by Fine Paints of Europe, as was the roller shade by Manhattan Shade & Glass, which erases an exhaust unit. Even the Sub-Zero refrigerator is painted green.